Good news for libertarians and patriots

Bad news for Republican hacks and neocons. States are rebelling against Bush’s “No Child Left Behind.” Among the states standing up to Bush’s nationalization of education are such pure red states as Virginia, Utah (the state which gave Bush his largest margin of victory in 2004), and even Texas, where Bush tried out many of the policies that ended up in No Child Left Behind (including centralized testing) when he was governor. In this latest battle between the states and the feds, guess which side the War Street Journal is on? (Subscription required to read the article.)